This trash talk from Thomas Friedman passes as Middle East expertise in the US: "We should arm the Shiites and Kurds and leave the Sunnis of Iraq to reap the wind. We must not throw more good American lives after good American lives for people who hate others more than they love their own children." (Also notice that `Abdur-Rahman Ar-Rashid of Al-Arabiyya TV now makes available for Friedman his English translations of his columns in Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat)